This concise, clear, accessible book is meant to truly engage students by using personal stories, solid research, and key theories that illustrate how sociologists look at life, the way we understand social dynamics, what "e;socially constructed"e; means, and how a sociological sensibility can, ultimately, be liberating.
Compassion in healthcare is simultaneously a professional practice and a personal response to the suffering of strangers that is shaped by life experience and a shared evolutionary past.
This book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
This book presents a critical analysis of the language surrounding Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), demonstrating how discourse can both sustain harm and serve as a catalyst for healing and change.
This edited volume brings together for the first time international research approaches from the field of figurational and processual sociology at the intersection of gender studies.
This book marks a significant contribution to the development of queer disaster studies - exploring how disaster-related experiences and needs of sexual and gender diverse (LGBTIQA+) people manifest and differ across national, cultural, and regional boundaries from the Global North and South; from culturally diverse communities, drawing together researchers and professionals working in government, non-government agencies, emergency management, community, and humanitarian organisations.
Just about fifty years ago, in its declaration on religious freedom at the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church programmatically dispensed with political coercion as a means of enforcing its claim to truth.
This book presents a critical analysis of the language surrounding Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), demonstrating how discourse can both sustain harm and serve as a catalyst for healing and change.
Die Theologische Fakultät Paderborn, die auf eine Stiftung von Fürstbischof Dietrich von Fürstenberg im Jahre 1614 zurückgeht, ist eine staatlich anerkannte Hochschule in Trägerschaft des Erzbischöflichen Stuhles zu Paderborn.
The Russian aggression on Ukraine has drastically altered the migration situation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), drawing international attention.
This edited volume brings together for the first time international research approaches from the field of figurational and processual sociology at the intersection of gender studies.
La danse des Monarques depeint, a travers une mosaique de temoignages et de reflexions, l'histoire de la generation COVID, dont les premiers pas dans la vie adulte ont marque la fin de l'insouciance.
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana's small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.
Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu highlights the significant contributions of women in the African diaspora to the Americas.
From the co-author of Let This Radicalize You, a collection of letters to inspire activists to continue the fightOrganizers are well seasoned in defeat.
"e;Le handicap : une force cachee"e; celebre la resilience des personnes en situation de handicap a travers des recits inspirants, demontrant que l'infirmite est bien plus qu'une difference.
This book provides a complex insight into how law, as a distinct tool and technology, conceptualizes and operationalizes race, ethnicity and nationality.
Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference is a collection of essays which brings together an all-star cast of researchers, clinicians, advocates, and activists around the world, many of whom have lived experience with disfigurement.
The Speculative Route explores speculative traditions and science fictional modes across South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA), examining their historical connections, inter- and intra-regional entanglements, overlaps, and differences.
Le 9 novembre 1970, alors qu'il peregrine dans les flammes du Purgatoire, Charles de Gaulle a une surprise de taille en tombant nez a nez avec Petain qui attend depuis plus de dix-neuf ans son entretien avec Dieu le Pere.
Women have traditionally been expected to tend the sick as part of their domestic duties; yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as healers outside the household.
In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work.
Exploring the ancient and widespread veneration of the snake in religion, myth, and ritual, Ophiolatreia reveals how serpent worship has shaped spiritual life across centuries and cultures.
